July 30th, 2010 by THN News
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(The Hosting News) – A project, which brought together senior executives from the creative and technology industries, has identified that privacy could be traded in the future for content, to generate new revenue streams for creative industries.
Even when we access content for free, we leave a digital trail of metadata behind us. By aggregating this information, organizations can generate a picture of a person’s behaviors and deliver relevant content to them.
John Cass, Director of the Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network (CIKTN), the organization behind the project, said: “Even when we access content for free, we leave a digital trail of metadata behind us. By aggregating this information, organizations can generate a picture of a person’s behaviors and deliver relevant content to them.”
The biggest issue with using metadata more effectively in this way are public fears over privacy. However, Cass believes that, in the future, people will increasingly be prepared to trade privacy for content or even financial reward. At present some companies such as Google and Facebook collect this sort of data without the users fully understanding its value.
“The big challenge will be to make the whole process more transparent so people understand the value of the data they have, how it will be used and what they are getting in return for that data,” said Cass. “This model already exists with store loyalty cards where we share information about our shopping habits in return for personalized offers and benefits, or cash back. The same model could be developed in the online world with companies delivering highly personalized content or offers to people.
“The traditional view is that content is free or paid for. The recent introduction of the Times paywall shows how content creators are looking for ways to monetize what was a free commodity. The other option is supporting the generation ...
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July 30th, 2010 by THN News
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(The Hosting News) – IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Storwize, a privately held company based in Marlborough, MA. Storwize provides real-time data compression technology to help clients reduce physical storage requirements by up to 80% (1), which improves efficiency and lowers the cost of making data available for analytics and other applications. The acquisition is anticipated to close in the third quarter of 2010, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Storwize has over one hundred customers such as Mobileye, Polycom Israel, Shopzilla, Inc. and Sumitomo Mitsui Construction across a wide range of industries including energy, manufacturing, finance, insurance, telecommunications and cloud services.
With Storwize, IBM is acquiring storage technology that is unique in the industry in that it can compress primary data, or data that clients are actively using, of multiple types — from files to virtualization images to databases — in real-time while maintaining performance. This is in contrast to other storage compression technologies that only compress secondary or backup data. By compressing primary data, Storwize users can store up to five times more data using the same amount of storage, preventing storage sprawl and lowering power and cooling costs.
This is important now more than ever as the world’s data already vastly exceeds available storage space and enterprise demand for storage capacity worldwide is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of over 43% from 2008 to 2013, according to IDC (2).
Compression shrinks data so files and databases take up less space. Storwize’s Random Access Compression Engine (RACE) is based on the industry-standard compression algorithm and uses Storwize’s patented technology for real-time data compression without any p...
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July 30th, 2010 by THN News
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(The Hosting News) – GoBetterTogether.com. officially launched their new website this week. The site aims to capture Memorys from large crowd participants to record history in an unprecedented fashion. Memorys are equal parts a business solution for event planners and a fresh new take on networking.
In a Memorys Conversation Post (on the site) Jimmy Legg writes, ” By capturing history as it happens we can assist everyone in learning much faster about missteps of the past and assist future generations in avoiding a similar fate.” With Public Memorys the world can access a greater knowledge database of world events with millions of contributors or a small town street fair with a few hundred or hundreds of thousand.
The site offers a definition of the Memorys feature as a culmination of individual memories of an event or moment in time as seen from the attendees point of view. These Memorys are created with written conversations, video and pictures. GoBetterTogether’s crowd resourceful segmented social networking platform that record history as it happens from crowd participants.
As a part of the launch, the home page announces a free HD video camera for best edited video submission by September 1, 2010. On The FAQ’s Page a statement reads, “ The Past Will Never Look The Same”.
Source: Capturing History on Video, New Site Launches
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July 30th, 2010 by THN News
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(The Hosting News) – GoBetterTogether.com. officially launched their new website this week. The site aims to capture Memorys from large crowd participants to record history in an unprecedented fashion. Memorys are equal parts a business solution for event planners and a fresh new take on networking.
In a Memorys Conversation Post (on the site) Jimmy Legg writes, ” By capturing history as it happens we can assist everyone in learning much faster about missteps of the past and assist future generations in avoiding a similar fate.” With Public Memorys the world can access a greater knowledge database of world events with millions of contributors or a small town street fair with a few hundred or hundreds of thousand.
The site offers a definition of the Memorys feature as a culmination of individual memories of an event or moment in time as seen from the attendees point of view. These Memorys are created with written conversations, video and pictures. GoBetterTogether’s crowd resourceful segmented social networking platform that record history as it happens from crowd participants.
As a part of the launch, the home page announces a free HD video camera for best edited video submission by September 1, 2010. On The FAQ’s Page a statement reads, “ The Past Will Never Look The Same”.
Source: Capturing History on Video, New Site Launches
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July 30th, 2010 by articles
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In [Part 1] I explained the importance of web hosting in a website\'s success. Here are some more facts which imply that web hosting should be taken very seriously
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July 29th, 2010 by THN News
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(The Hosting News) – Today at the Black Hat USA 2010 conference, Microsoft Corp. announced that it will extend its Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) to include vulnerability information sharing from Adobe Systems Inc. Microsoft also discussed the new policy of coordinated vulnerability disclosure — a reframing of responsible disclosure — and introduced new tools and guidance that will improve online security for customers.
Extending Microsoft Active Protections Program in Collaboration With Adobe Systems
Launched in October 2008 by the Microsoft Security Response Center, MAPP is a unique collaborative effort that facilitates advanced information sharing on Microsoft product vulnerabilities with security software providers. In fall 2010, Adobe will join Microsoft and share its vulnerability information with the 65 global MAPP members, offering advanced protections to hundreds of millions of people. Through programs like MAPP, Microsoft is helping protect customers from the threats of today and tomorrow.
“Adobe products are relied on by individuals and organizations worldwide. Given the relative ubiquity and cross-platform reach of many of our products, as well as the continued shifts in the threat landscape, Adobe has attracted increasing attention from attackers,” said Brad Arkin, senior director of product security and privacy at Adobe. “We are committed to our customers’ security at every level and are excited to leverage MAPP as an important part of our overall product security initiative. MAPP is a great example of a tried and proven model giving an upper hand to a network of global defenders who all rally behind a shared purpose — protecting our mutual customers.”
“Microsoft acknowledges that the constantly changing threat landscape requires a new approach to security — collaboration and shared responsibility are key as past individual efforts are no ...
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July 29th, 2010 by THN News
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(The Hosting News) – Barracuda Networks Inc., a leading provider of content security, data protection and application delivery solutions, today released its Barracuda Labs 2010 Midyear Security Report, revealing data from two key areas: search engine malware and Twitter use and crime rate. The company is presenting this data at Security BSides Las Vegas and DefCON 18 this week in Las Vegas. The full report is available at the company’s security research portal at http://barracudalabs.com.
Searching for Malware
Barracuda Labs conducted a study across Bing, Google, Twitter and Yahoo!, over a roughly two-month period. The analysis reviews more than 25,000 trending topics and nearly 5.5 million search results. The purpose of the study was to analyse trending topics on popular search engines to understand the scope of the problem and to identify the types of topics used by malware distributors. The results will be presented at DefCON 18 on Saturday, July 31, at 11:00 a.m. PT, at the Riviera Hotel & Casino.
Key highlights from the search engine study include:
• Overall, Google takes the crown for malware distribution – turning up more than twice the amount of malware as Bing, Twitter and Yahoo! combined when searches on popular trending topics were performed. Google presents at 69 per cent; Yahoo! at 18 per cent; Bing at 12 per cent; and Twitter at one per cent.
• The average amount of time for a trending topic to appear on one of the major search engines after appearing on Twitter varies tremendously: 1.2 days for Google, 4.3 days for Bing, and 4.8 days for Yahoo!
• Over half of the malware found was between the hours of 4:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. GMT.
• The top 10 terms used by malware distributors include the name of a NFL player, three actresses, a Play*boy [sic] Playmate and a college student who faked his way into Harvard.
The Darkside of Twitter
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Full article: Google Crowned “King of Malware”
July 29th, 2010 by Rossman
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(The Hosting News) – Managing open source hypervisors, including Xen and KVM, became a lot easier today with the release of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise edition from Convirture Corp.
The open source version of ConVirt has been available for more than three years and is broadly deployed and well-tested in real-world data centers — having been downloaded more than 30,000 times. In fact, ConVirt1.x is included in most major Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Open SUSE, Debian and others.
ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise extends ConVirt Open Source with the advanced automation and scalability features necessary for running large-scale or mission-critical virtualized environments. By delivering high availability, backup and recovery, storage and network automation, and enterprise-grade security, ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise enables IT managers to meet and exceed service levels while using infrastructure in the most efficient way.
ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise is also the go-to tool for enterprises ready to move beyond virtualized infrastructure management towards a hosted or private cloud model. With an extensive cloud management feature set, which includes multi-tenant security, delegated control, scheduled provisioning, resource limiting, and many more, ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise enables IT organizations to offer infrastructure-as-a-service, while ensuring full isolation and compliance with corporate policies.
“We’ve implemented a variety of virtualization platforms over the years and managing them all – especially the open source hypervisors – has always been the single biggest pain point,” said Steven Scoleri, Principal Architect at GSI Commerce, a leading provider of e-commerce and interactive marketing services. “Our beta test of ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise has gone very well and we think it just may be the game-changer we’ve been looking for. We no longer need experts on hand at all times to complet...
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July 29th, 2010 by THN News
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(The Hosting News) – The event gives exhibitors the opportunity to deliver their message directly to the exhibit hall audience during the PubCon Las Vegas conference.
Brett Tabke, PubCon’s organizer said, “Over the past decade PubCon has featured top technology exhibitors and we’re delighted to have Raven Internet Marketing Tools as a Gold Sponsor for this year’s PubCon Las Vegas.”
Tabke continued, “PubCon attendees look for educational materials and information from the variety of businesses that fill our exhibit halls, and exhibiting at PubCon Las Vegas 2010 is a great way to reach out to new potential clients and customers.”
PubCon offers a variety of promotional and marketing tools within the exhibitor and sponsorship packages currently available. These include platinum, gold and keynote level sponsorships, conference guidebook advertising, network event and party sponsorships, exhibit hall theater presentation sponsorships, exhibit booth space of all sizes, and more. This includes entry-level tabletop opportunities ideal for first-time exhibitors.
PubCon Las Vegas 2010 exhibit halls will be open from Wednesday, November 10 through Thursday, November 11.
Full details of the PubCon 2010 sponsor and exhibitor prospectus are available from today at www.pubcon.com
About PubCon
PubCon is a multi-track educational conference hosted by WebmasterWorld. PubCon events are for thought leaders and professionals Internet marketing, social media, search marketing and advertising to gather and to share best practices in the design, development, promotion and marketing of their Internet businesses and brands.
For more information about the conference, contact Brett Tabke at 512-231-8107 or brett at webmasterworld.com
In the U.K., contact Neil Marshall at 512-231-8107 ext 106 or engine at webmasterworld.com
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July 29th, 2010 by stratogen
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(The Hosting News) – StratoGen completed today the final phase of its strategic upgrade of core network facilities. The upgraded network can carry more than 10GB of data per second and will provide customers with increased scalability, higher capacity and total resilience. It took 6 months to design, build and deploy.
The project has been completed 2 months early with zero downtime, which is testament to the talented engineers employed by the company.
Karl Robinson, Director of StratoGen, said: “We already have an enviable reputation for network quality and we continue to invest in our infrastructure to make sure we stay ahead. All our clients have a 100% uptime guarantee so it was vitally important that these significant upgrades were planned in such a way so as to avoid any service disruption. Naturally I’m very proud of the performance of our technical team as this will serve to highlight the strength of our service level agreement and the calibre of the engineers that look after our infrastructure.”
The deployment of all new high-end Cisco routers and switches has resulted in a significant speed increase and makes StratoGen one of the most resilient managed hosting providers in Europe. In addition, the platform allows for complex private network infrastructures and can cope with huge volumes of event driven Internet traffic.
“UK businesses have become increasingly aware of the importance of their online presence and this has led to a rapid growth in managed hosting. With these upgrades in place we can look forward to servicing many more customers and deploying complex hosting infrastructures with ease,” Robinson said.
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